Please find in attached file the Call for papers for Special Track on "Design of Production Systems" for INCOM2006 17-19.05.2006, Saint Etienne, France: http://www.emse.fr/incom06
Track co-chairs are:
Pr. Ronald G. Askin, The University of Arizona, USA http://www.sie.arizona.edu/faculty/askin.html
Pr. Alexandre Dolgui, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France http://www.emse.fr/~dolgui
Pr. Jean-Marie Proth, INRIA, France http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/gr2/diafora2/Prosopiko2/Hon_Fel_CV/JM%20Proth.doc
Pr. Armin Scholl, Friedrich-Schiller - Universität Jena, Germany http://www.wiwi.uni-jena.de/Entscheidung/alb/
Track topics: Discrete part manufacturing, machining, assembly and disassembly. Factory organization, manufacturing facility. Modern design techniques, strategies for organizing physical resources, technological, engineering and management aspects. Quantitative modelling of facilities design, assembly and transfer lines, line balancing, process planning/equipment selection, reconfigurable systems. Machine failures, capacity analysis, buffer allocation. Group technology, manufacturing cells, cell design methodology, facility layout. Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS); AGV, material handling, automated storage and retrieval (AS/RS) systems. Warehousing and plant location problems. Performance evaluation and optimisation, operations research techniques, mathematical programming, heuristics and metaheuristics, decomposition, discrete event simulation.
Important dates: Now: express your intention of submission to dolgui@emse.fr October 1, 2005: deadline for paper submission January 6, 2006: notification of acceptance/reject March 1, 2006: deadline for final paper.
Sincerely,
Alexandre Dolgui
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Alexandre Dolgui, Ph.D., Dr. Hab. Professor Director, Division for Industrial Engineering and Computer Sciences Head, Scientific Methods for Industrial Management Department Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne 158, Cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint Etienne cedex 2, France Fax: +33 (0)4.77.42.66.66 E-mail: dolgui@emse.fr URL: www.emse.fr/~dolgui
17, 18, 19 May 2006 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing dedicated to the 190-th anniversary of Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne
for more information, see: www.emse.fr/incom06 __________________________________________________________________
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